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35 June 1964 . H

Per hia request, 7ad Lt. Oliverio
Aatoaic TOMED Vasallo wea recoatscted
oa & June 64 at his place of resic-
ence. He provided additional details.
oa

amd ideatif£ied Osiel GONZALEZ sad one
"SoCo" as possible leads to Jose
SLANUZA Gobé1.

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138. Awe 1966

= 1. At 1730 bours, & June 64, the » undersigned. was advised.
“eG Bie residence that a itr. TOREU (Subject) had called the — ft
security nupber qiven hin (351-6161) and left the mescage thet .

be would Lite to tala sgnim with Paul Stroud: (the undersigned) . .
anytine efter 160% hours, 6 June.

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a GUBJECT: Recentact of Gliverio A, TOMEE Yasalic. (201-383206)
3. Upom arriving at TOMKU's apartnent (pt. 303, 1028. .

Wahler Place £3, High Poiat Apartzent House, tashington, D. C.), .

18390 hours, 8 dune, TOMEU indicated ta bis two daughters be would

like to have sane privacy and they snd his vite, Caridad, lest
the opartucat..

3. TORU apologized for not having recelled the nane ; _
“Ge VAROMA” as that of Anz Gloria de VAROMA. He reiterated
thet, while im hiding to escape capture by the Cuban Governsent
@ubeoquent to hia infiltration, he knew only the first aanes of
the pereces with whom &6 came in contact, but then added he knew
Aza Gloria Ge YARONA, in whose bouse he wae hiding, because she.
was the sister of Carlos de VAROMA, one of his infiltration teas |
pendbers. (This Carlos de YAROMA may. be identical wits ose — - Ss
Carlos Manus] de VARCM. » -201-280988; or one Carlos Arturo
- ‘WAROMA Arjona, 301-253209. .

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ue 4. Om moveral cocoarioss, according to TOMED, he was seated |
- et the table ia Ana's house with several other people. Cue of
-. Qhese individuals, knowa to TCRMEU only as “COCO,” was described:
.. @@ the secretary to Jose LLAKUZA Gobel. There wag not, however,
° gmp diecsussions in which TOMEU recalls LLANUZA or hie political
|. Q@yupgathies boviag been discussed. Accerding te TOMEU's recol-
- Jeetion 1t was "COCO" wae wae asscetated with LLAHUZA, and he
Woe sot avere eof any relaticenstip betrse2 fea see LIANUBA.
Althoags TORS bad na infursetion an to what sinally aappened
'. -@@ Carles de VAROWA, hic iafsiltration team mate, he cucgested
ebat af Carles cr Ann vere svailable they moy te eble to

Sdentizy “COSC end provide date on. ‘his: p aececeability Lor
evatact.

8. One Caiei CONRALES, foruer- Cater ot the. Havana ire
Department, woe identified by TONG am another possible lead

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who vould know LLANUZA. TOMKY effirned Csiel was previousl; .
with MENUOYO Gutierrez in the Sécond Front of Escanhray. Osiel
was under ssylum in the Brazilian habsasy (sic, Argentine
_ Mabassy?), when TUMEU geined political asylum. When OGstel ‘
; finally received his safe conduct from the imbassy, be sent.
to Puerto Kico and, TOMEU postulates that Gaiel is now again
with MENOTO in either: the United. States or. Puerto Rico,

6. Two sap shota (to be returned) were provided by. .
TOMA. of binself and six other individuals who were in asylus .
at the seme tine. Se identified these, in the photograph in | te
which Monsignor Eduardo BOZA Masvidal is seated, as, from :
left to right: Manuel VILLAMANAN, Oliverio TOMEU, Nils DIAZ - .
(believed to be in US), Publio RUIZ (U8), Jorge Del VALLE
(ex?), and Guiel GONZALEZ (US or Puerto Rico?7).

_ 7. Upcn completing the debriefing, Stroud and TOMEU :
“exchanged tzalt talk” for a while until TOMEU finally stated
that he still wished there vas comething more he could do to
belp free Cuba, and asked "What do you think I should do?“
Stroud replied that no person could really sake that type of
@ecision for another individual, and countered by asking TOMEU
ebat alternatives he had in nind, other than remaining in the
VB Army as a career military officer.

6. TOMEU replied that, of course, he was once an. : i
agriculturalist, but that there were fer job opportunities in of
which be could apply his past experience. His. sister had also ‘
gaked hie if he felt he and sis family would want to. live with
ber in Spain or Hexico, but he didn’t think too much of this
idea, Me then atated that he had been asked by Manuel ARTIME.

Ze take a job aa an instructor, Without indicating any

association of even awareness of ARTIME's activitios, or of

ARTIME's contact with TOXEY (as incicated in TOMEU's 201), ‘

SOMEY was askod what he thought of ARTIME's proposition. :

: QOMEY stated that he would no longer follow any wan as =a :
individual. or as a leader, because a man's ideals, cutlosk,. i .

y ead objectives. change with tine. For example, the people of

.- Gaba: followed Fidel because of the ideals he advocat<d. When

' Fadel took ever, hia acconplishasnis gradually became qairs

@asSerent from the ideals he had espoused, TOMEU continued

esying he would “no longer follow a man, One could only E
' @yust his idenis or an organization which followed: those f
ideals, since a qood. organizetion would be loss likely of . y iP
being controlled by a single man.“ When saked for an example '

Gf. the type of organization he hud in mind, TOMEU replied he : “
Was nost favorably inclined tovards the ideale and goals of ‘
the JURE, (The JURE or JRC ie an organization crested by Po Bs
Banoclo RAY. Rivero around s nucleus. of. forner 26 July Movesent. _ .
leaders, See nemo and attachzent dated 45 July 1063 from. Joha an
ugh Crineine, Coordinator. of Cuban A , ABA: Department i. a
af. Gtate in. U's 201-283206.). : 3

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| at sbouléd, perhaps, be noted here that in an inforeat
exchange with Mra. Donald WEBSTER, TOMKU's supervisor at the
Defense Language institute, Anacostia Rawal Annex, 4 June 64,

Gra, VEBSTER volunteered the information that.

“all of the other

‘Brigade students here’ have told me they think very Bighly
of TOMEY, and that he is very brave nan, because he and his
ganily were very wealthy in Cubs and he gave at all “p to 6°

into exile and fight the Castro Regize.~


